2013 U.S. Youth Sailing Championships Final Report

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (August 16, 2013) – Sailors were prepared to rally for the fourth and final day of racing at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships, hosted by the Corpus Christi Yacht Club. Boats were launched and courses were set, but lack of breeze and travel schedule considerations made racing impossible on Friday. Seven classes were represented this week in South Texas, including the 29er, Club 420, Formula 16, International 420, Laser, Laser Radial and RS:X. For most of these classes, this championship served as a mandatory U.S. qualification event for the 2014 ISAF Youth Worlds Team.

“On behalf of everyone at US Sailing, we’d like to thank the Corpus Christi Yacht Club for being a tremendous host this week,” said US Sailing Executive Director Jack Gierhart. “It took an incredible effort to pull this all together.”

Championship Notes, Awards and Recognitions:
• This championship served as a mandatory qualification event for the 2014 U.S. Youth Worlds Team in all fleets with the exception of the Club 420 and Laser fleets.
• The male winner of the Laser fleet and the female winner of the Radial fleet will qualify for the 2013 U.S. Singlehanded. Championships to be sailed September 13-15 at Manasquan River Yacht Club in Brielle, N.J.
• U.S. Olympic Committee’s Jacques and Anne Rogge Olympic Pathways Scholarship awarded F16 multihull sailors Sophia Schultz (Sarasota, Fla.) and Joseph Bello (Navarre, Fla.) a full racing course in 2014 at Oakcliff Sailing, a US Sailing Team Training Center in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
• Manton D. Scott Memorial Trophy to winning Open Doublehanded Dinghy (C420) team – Nicholas Sertl and Elizabeth Pemberton
• Robert L. Johnstone III Trophy to winning Singlehanded Laser Standard – Mitchell Kiss
• Robert and Ann Conner Trophy to winning Singlehanded Laser Radial – Luke Muller
• Arthur J. Stevens Trophy to winning Multihull team – Ravi Parent and Nico Schultz
• The David M. Perry Perpetual Sportsmanship Awards were presented to the following sailors: Club 420 – AJ Reiter and Greer Wattson, F16 – Ravi Parent and Nico Schultz, RS:X – Jonathan Rudich, Laser Radial – Clay Broussard, 29er – Quinn Wilson and Riley Gibbs, Laser – Ethan Stark, International 420 – Lucy Wilmot and Kaleigh Allen
• Next year’s U.S. Youth Sailing Championship will be hosted by Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (Mich.) in August. Applications will open in early January.

The U.S. Youth Sailing Championships is a US Sailing National Championship regatta and sponsored by Sperry Top-Sider, Gill North America, Hobie Polarized and Zim Sailing. The championship is a Sailors for the Sea – Clean Regattas certification event.